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Princess Diana Funeral Eulogyby Earl Charles Spencer I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock. We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so. For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they too lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today.No Need for Royal TitleDiana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality. Someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you but half a life. We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now that you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult.We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.Great Gift of IntuitionThere is a temptation to rush to canonise your memory, there is no need to do so. You stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint. Indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humour with a laugh that bent you double.Your joy for life transmitted where ever you took your smile and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes. Your boundless energy which you could barely contain.But your greatest gift was your intuition and it was a gift you used wisely. This is what underpinned all your other wonderful attributes and if we look to analyse what it was about you that had such a wide appeal we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives.Without your God-given sensitivity we would be immersed in greater ignorance at the anguish of Aids and HIV sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of landmines.Innermost Feelings of SufferingDiana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected.And here we come to another truth about her. For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release herself from deep feelings of unworthiness of which her eating disorders were merely a symptom.The world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability whilst admiring her for her honesty.The last time I saw Diana was on July 1, her birthday in London, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honour at a special charity fundraising evening. She sparkled of course, but I would rather cherish the days I spent with her in March when she came to visit me and my children in our home in South Africa. I am proud of the fact apart from when she was on display meeting President Mandela we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting a single picture of her - that meant a lot to her.These were days I will always treasure. It was as if we had been transported back to our childhood when we spent such an enormous amount of time together - the two youngest in the family.Fundamentally she had not changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents homes with me at weekends.It is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre-like life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself.Dianas Goodness Threatened the MediaThere is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time. She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. I dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling.My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this - a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys William and Harry from a similar fate and I do this here Diana on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.Blood Family Will Protect SonsAnd beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.We fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born and will always respect and encourage them in their royal role but we, like you, recognise the need for them to experience as many different aspects of life as possible to arm them spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead. I know you would have expected nothing less from us.William and Harry, we all cared desperately for you today. We are all chewed up with the sadness at the loss of a woman who was not even our mother. How great your suffering is, we cannot even imagine.I would like to end by thanking God for the small mercies he has shown us at this dreadful time. For taking Diana at her most beautiful and radiant and when she had joy in her private life. Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.- CHARLES, EARL SPENCER 我今天在你们面前，作为一个悲恸家庭的代表在一个举国哀悼的国家，面对一个受着震惊的世界。我们都连结在一起，不仅仅因为我们渴望表示对戴安娜的敬意，而且因为我们需要这样做。因为她的特殊吸引力是那么的强烈，以至于全世界几千万人，没有看到过她的人们，今天通过电视和收音机参加这个葬礼，他们都感到本星期天凌晨失去了一个可亲的人，这个事实就是给戴安娜的殊荣，比我今天希望表达的悼词要强烈和深刻得多。戴安娜的实质是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽。在全世界她是无私的人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏被摈弃的人们权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩子，是一个带着一种自然的高贵气质的不分阶级的人。在最后一年她显示出来她不需什么皇家头衔也可以继续发挥她独特的神奇力量。 今天是一个机会，我们要说谢谢你，你的榜样照亮了我们的生活，虽然天主只给了你一半的生命。我们常感到像受欺骗似的，你那样年轻，就给带走了。然而我们必须懂得感恩，你还是来过了。今天，只是你走了我们才真正明白我们失去的是什么。我们要你知道，没有你生命是多么多么艰难。一个星期来我们全家都经历了痛失亲人的绝望，惟有你多年慷慨厚赐留下的回忆给我们力量再走下去。现在有股风潮，大家争抢对你的回忆，或是把这回忆神化起来。实在不需这样做，作为一个有杰出品质的人，你已经站得很高了，你不需要被人看做圣人。确实，如果神圣化对你的回忆就要忽视你的存在的核心就是你那奇妙的、带点调皮的、忍俊不禁的诙谐。无论什么时候，你的一颦一笑，你令人难忘的眼神的一闪一烁，总把生活的欢愉传给别人。你旺盛不竭的精力好像不是你身体所能容纳的。但你最大的天赋是天生的爱心，待人处事的这个天赋你运用得那样聪明和恰到好处。你种种别的优异品性就是从这个天性衍生出来的。如果我们试着分析你怎会有这样巨大的吸引力，我们找到的答案是，这吸引力就在于你对我们大家生命中真正重要的东西有同情心。如果没有你那天赐的敏感和关切，今天我们大家对艾滋病患和带有相近病素的人(人体免疫缺损)的痛苦，对无家可归的人的窘况，对被地雷随意杀伤的人的不幸，要显得冷漠得多。戴安娜有次对我解释，她内心深处的痛苦使她有可能同那些被社会摈弃的人们往来。这里我们可以看到她身上的另一个事实，不管社会地位怎么显赫，怎么光彩夺目，人们怎么颂扬，戴安娜内心始终是一个受伤害和没有安全感的人，她像孩子似的竭力对别人做点好事以解脱她内心深受贬抑、轻视的痛苦，她的饮食失调也是源于这种忧郁心情的一个病症。 全世界都感受到了她性格中的一部分。人们不仅缅怀她的单纯诚朴，更缅怀她的被贬受挫的一面。 我最后一次见她是今年7月1日，她的生日，在伦敦。那是很典型的一天，她没有时间同朋友一起庆贺自己的生日，而是作为贵宾出席了一个慈善晚会，当然那天她是光彩夺目的。但我更愿意回想今年3